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The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the "best of the best."
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Best Free Outliner
Updated 19th June, 2007
I'm not a great fan of outliners - my brain doesn't work that way.
Some folks however, swear by them and if that includes you, then you
should check out Keynote, a freeware program that has a
dedicated band of followers. Its major design attribute is its
ease of use. Words like "natural" and "seamless" come close to the
mark but really don't capture the essence of what is really a great
design. What do you do with it? Well to quote the web site “KeyNote
is used by screenwriters to draft screenplays, by medical doctors to
keep patient databases, by developers to store source code snippets
- and to everyone it serves as a place to put all the random pieces
of information that have no particular structure of relationship to
other data, and do not fit easily in task-specific applications such
as word-processors, databases or spreadsheets.” Unfortunately
the program is no longer being developed but is totally usable in
its current form.
If you find that a turn-off you might like to consider NeoMem [2] as an alternative. It's not really a dedicated outliner rather more of a general purpose note taking program that can be used as an outliner. It's a kind of hybrid of a database and word processor that's designed to allow you to organize, store, hyperlink and search information. That bland description totally under-sells the product. It's one of those programs that you really need to use in order to understand the potential. It works with all Windows versions so try it.
Another possibility is FreeMind [3]. It's an Open Source program "mind mapping" program written in Java that can serve as an outliner as well. Functionally it's closer to Keynote than NeoMem. It's slower than Keynote but is more powerful for mapping complex relationships.
Somewhat different again is ZuluPad [4]. It's not really an outliner but rather a cross between a note-taking program and a wiki. Its strong card is the ease with which you can create a set of linked and cross linked documents. At its current stage of development it is lacking in features but this is more than compensated by its high level of usability.
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[1]
http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html Free Mozilla Public
license, Windows 98 and later, 1.7MB
[2]
http://www.neomem.org/
Free MIT X11 License, all Windows versions, 680KB
[3]
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Free Open Source, any system with Java, 3MB.
[4]
http://www.gersic.com/zulupad/ Free, Open Source, Windows
ME - 2003, 1.6MB
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